SAGE & SASS

SAGE & SASS

HOW TO STAY IN YOUR CHOSEN FREQUENCY WHEN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SYSTEM

Or: Why You Keep Turning Into Your Old Self Around Certain People (And How to Finally Stop That Shit)

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Dea Devidas
Oct 03, 2025
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Look, you’ve done the work. You’ve meditated, journaled, gone to therapy, burned the sage, cut the cords, released the trauma, upgraded your entire operating system. You’re living in your new frequency now: sensual, present, powerful, alive. You’re basically the 2.0 version of yourself, and honestly? She’s magnificent.

And then. THEN.

You run into that one person. Could be an ex. Could be your mother. Could be your old boss, or that friend who knew you “back when.” And within 0.3 seconds, faster than you can say “I’ve done my healing work”, you morph back into the version of yourself you swore you’d left behind.

The small one. The apologetic one. The one who laughs at jokes that aren’t funny and says “it’s fine” when it absolutely is not fine.

And you’re standing there thinking: What the actual hell just happened? I’m evolved now. I’m a goddess. I’ve got boundaries. I know my worth. So why am I suddenly acting like a nervous intern at a job I quit three years ago?

Welcome to the wild worl…

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